I finally took my FX 5700 Ultra for a bit of a test drive today. You know, this old midrange GPU isn't half bad! Has a pretty swank cooler for an old budget card! It's much bigger than the 9800 Pro cooler, and covers the VRAM as well. It's also ahead of the GF4 Ti4400 at higher resolutions, which I think is pretty impressive. Always thought the old GF4 Ti would outperform a midrange FX, but I may have been thinking about the 5600 Ultra. Anyway, that doesn't appear to be the case, and I doubt the TI4600/4800 would really change the overall ranking.
Here's a bit of quick n' dirty benchmarking against the Ti4400 and 9800 Pro. Yeah, it's not very detailed, but I probably spent a grand total of 45 minutes benching the 5700 Ultra, and am just reusing my old TI4400 and 9800 Pro results. 😀
Q3A, 1024x768
Ti4400: 211 FPS
5700U: 218.7 FPS
9800P: 220.2 FPS
Q3A, 1600x1200
Ti4400: 120.6 FPS
5700U: 143.5 FPS
9800P: 196.1 FPS
Doom3, 1024x768 - Medium preset
Ti4400: 22.1 FPS
5700U: 29.8 FPS
9800P: 47.6 FPS
3DMark 2001SE Default
Ti4400: 10,106
5700U: 10,840
9800P: 12,632
3DMark 2003 Default
Ti4400: 1822
5700U: 3477
9800P: 5406
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!